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LAWS ANl) ORDINANCES 



RELATING TO THE 



Public Parks 



OF THE 



CITY OF BALTIMORE. 



WITH THE 



RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THEIR GOVERNMENT. 



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STE^^M (PI^ESS OF WILLIAM K. ^OYLE, 

Corner of Baltimore and St. Paul Street*. 

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CITY OF BALTIMOIIE. 



No. 124. 

Resolution inquiring into the expediency of opening, widenijig, 
and improving the Avenues on the Eastern and Northern 
Boundaries of the City, and providing a like Avenue on the 
Western Boundary of the City. 

Resolved, by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, 
That it is expedient to cause inquiry to be made into the 
propriety of" opening, widening and improving the ave- 
nues on the Eastern and Northern boundaries of the city, 
as laid down on Poppleton's Map, and providing a like 
avenue on the Western boundary of the city. 

Resolved, That John H. B. Latrobe, James Carroll, 
Fielding Lucas, Jr., the Mayor of the city, and the Pres- 
idents of the First and Second Branches of the City Coun- 
cil, be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to 
inquire into and report upon the most feasible plan for 
opening, widening, extending and improving said ave- 



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nues, and the expenses of the same, to the City Council 
at its next annual session ; and that, with a view to enable 
them to act with more efficiency in this behalf, they be 
and are hereby empowered to employ a suitable surveyor, 
and call upon the City Commissioner for any assistance 
said officer may be able to afford them. 

Resolved, That for the purpose of defraying the ex- 
penses of such surveys as the said Commissioners may deem 
proper to order, in connection with the improvement of a 
continuous avenue around the city, the sum of five hun- 
dred dollars, oi- so much thereof as may be necessary, 
shall be and the same is hereby ai)propriated out of any 
money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. 

Approved June 12, 1851. 

Jno. H. T. Jerome, Mayor. 

Under the foregoing ordinance the Commissioners re- 
ported the line surveyed by Thomas P. Chiffelle, and 
shown by the green trace on Simmons' map of the city, of 
November, 1851. 



No. 138. 



Resolution of Instruction to the Joint Committee for opening, 
■widening and extending the Northern, Eastern and Western 
Avenues. 

Resolved, by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, 
That the Commissioners heretofore appointed to inquire 
into and report upon the propriety of opening, widening 
and improving tlie avenues on the Eastern and Northern 
boundaries of the city, as laid down on Poppleton's plat, 
and providing a like avenue on the Western boundary, be 



THE PUBLIC PARKS OF BALTIMORE CITY. 5 

and they are hereby authorized to embrace in their inquiry 
and report any changes they may deem advisable in the 
location of the avenues aforesaid, and generally all such 
matters as they may think calculated to place the whole 
subject before the City Council at its next annual session. 
Approved June 21, 1851. 

Jno. H. T. Jerome, Mayor. 



No. 114. 

Resolutions in regard to the further prosecution of the enquiry 
relating to Boundary Avenue. 

Resolved, by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, 
That the Commissioners heretofore appointed under Reso- 
lutions No. 124 and No. 138, approved respectively on 
the 12th and 21st of June, 1851, be, and they are hereby 
continued, with instructions to complete the enquiry un- 
der their charge, by causing such additional surveys to 
be made as shall enable them to ascertain and mark upon 
the ground the best location, under all circumstances, 
and in view of the actual construction of the avenues re- 
ferred to in the said resolutions, as well as of an avenue 
connecting the southern extremity of the Western avenue 
with Fort avenue. 

Resolved, That the said Commissioners be required to 
include in their report detailed estimates of the cost of 
the plan adopted by them, including, as far as the same 
can be ascertained, the probable cost of the ground re- 
quired for the work, enumerating the respective proprie- 
tors thereof. 

Resolved, That for the purpose of defraying tlie expenses 
of the work thus required to be done, the sum of five thous- 
and dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall 



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W, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money 
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. 
Approved May 28, 1852. 

Jno. H. T. Jerome, Mayor. 

Under this ordinance the Commissioners reported the 
line surveyed by August Faul, and recommended it to 
the Councils. It is shown on Simmons' map of 1853 by a 
blue trace. 



No. 44. 

Extract from An Ordinance empowering Wni. H. Travers, Wm. 
8. Browning, Wm. De Ooey, Bob't Cathcart, Joshua B. Sum- 
wait, and those who are now or may hereafter become associated 
with them and their assigns, to build and lay down tracks for a 
Passenger Bail Boad on Baltimore Street and other streets. 

Section 14. And he it further enacted and ordained, 
That the said association sliail, by their Treasurer, under 
oath, pay into the hands of the City Register, quarterly, 
one-fifth of the gross receipts accruing from the passenger 
travel upon said roads located within the city limits under 
this ordinance, or any extension of said limits which may 
be determined upon hereafter, the same to be applied to 
the establishment and improvement of the city boundary 
avenue as reported upon at the annual session of the Mayor 
and City Council of Baltimore in 1853, by commissioners 
appointed at the annual session of 1851, and to the loca- 
tion, purchase and improvement of such Park or Parks as 
may be determined upon hereafter by the Mayor and City 
Council of Baltimore, for the benefit of the people of said 
city ; said park or parks not to comprise an area of less 
than fifty acres each ; and the said Mayor and City Coun- 
cil shall have the power, on the completion of said im- 



THE PUBLIC PARKS OF BALTIMORE CITY. 7 

provements, to reduce the rate of fare on passenger travel 
to such limit within the range of one-fifth of the gross 
receipts of said road as they may deem expedient and 
advisable, the city at the same time relinquishing her 
interest in the receipts from said road to the extent of said 
reduction on said fare. 

Approved March 28, 1859. 

Tho: Swann, 3Iayor. 



No. 227. 

Resolution appointing a Commission in relation to the proposed 
Public Paries. 

Whereas, as one-fifth of the revenue from the Passenger 
Railway Company is to be devoted to the purchase of a 
Park or Parks for the City of Baltimore ; and whereas, a 
considerable portion of the funds are already in the hands 
of the Register, and more accruing every day ; and where- 
as, it is fitting that some action looking to a proper selec- 
tion of the Park or Parks^ and the purchase of the same 
should be taken by the present Council ; therefore. 

Resolved, by the Blayor and City Council of Baltimore, 
That the Mayor be, and he is hereby authorized and 
empowered to appoint four discreet persons, who with the 
Mayor shall constitute a commission, to select and pur- 
chase in the name of the Mayor and City Council, a site 
or sites, the number of acres, &c., for the proposed Park 
or Parks, and that said commission shall serve without 
pay or emolument. 

Approved June 4, 1860. 

Tho : Swann, Mayor. 

Under this resolution, the Mayor appointed John H. B. 
Latrobe, William E. Hooper, Robert Leslie and Colum- 
bus O'Donneil. 



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No. 60. 
An Ordinance to provide for a Public Park or Parks. 

Section 1. Be it enacted and ordained by the Mayor and 
City Council of Baltimore, That whenever the Commis- 
sioners appointed under a resolution of the Mayor and 
City Council of Baltimore, entitled ''Resolution appoint- 
ing a commission in relation to the proposed Public 
Parks," shall certify to tlie Register, under their respec- 
tive hands, that they have purchased the site or sites 
for a Park or Parks, describing the same in their said 
certificate, and stating the price agreed to be paid there- 
for, and the terms of sale, it shall be the duty of the 
said Register to issue and deliver to the said commis- 
sion, certificates of stock of the Mayor and City Coun- 
cil of Baltimore, in the usual form, redeemable at the 
end of thirty years from the date thereof, and desig- 
nated on the face of the certificate as "Public Park 
Stock," for the amount of said purchase money, and in 
accordance with the terms of sale ; wliich certificates of 
stock shall be delivered to the vendor or vendors of such 
site ors ites, by the said commissioners, upon the convey- 
ance to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore of the 
property so purchased, and after the Counsellor of the city 
shall have certified to the suflSciency of the title or titles 
thereof; and should the said commission not be able to 
complete the purchase of said site or sites at one time, so 
as to be obliged to make several certificates to the Regis- 
ter, the same proceedings as those just mentioned shall 
be had in each and every case. 

Sec. 2. And he it enacted and ordained, That the reve- 
nue derived and to be derived by the Mayor and City 
Council of Baltimore from the City Passenger Railways, 
be and the same is hereby pledged and set apart for the 
payment of the interest on the certificates of stock to be 
issued under this ordinance. 



THE PUBLIC PARKS OF BALTIMORE CITY. 9 

Sec. 3. And be it enacted and ordained, That one-fifth 
of the revenue aforesaid, remaining after the payment of 
the interest aforesaid, shall he invested hy the Register in 
the stock of the City of Baltimore, as a sinking fund for 
the redemption of the stock created by this ordinance. 

Sec. 4. And be it enacted and ordained, That the four- 
fifths of said remaining revenue, shall be paid by the 
Register, on the order of the said commission, as the said 
revenue shall be received, for the improvement and main- 
tenance of the Park or Parks aforesaid. 

Sec. 5. And be it enacted and ordained, That said com- 
mission shall make annually to the Mayor and City Coun- 
cil of Baltimore, in season to be referred to in the annual 
message of the Mayor to the Council, a full and detailed 
report of their proceedings in the execution of the trust 
reposed in them, showing the character and quantity of 
work done and the moneys paid therefor, the persons in 
their employment, their duties and compensation, together 
witli the plan proposed for their operations during the 
coming year. 

Sec. 6. And be it enacted and ordained. That the pre- 
sent commission be, and tliey are hereby authorized to 
take charge of the said Park or Parks, and the improve- 
ment and maintenance, including the preservation thereof, 
and to that end they are hereby clothed with all power 
necessary for that purpose, and may appoint and compen- 
sate such officer or ofiicers, engineer or engineers, gar- 
dener or gardeners, and employ such laborers as they may 
deem proper and necessary, and with power also to 
appoint and compensate guardians of the said property 
for the preservation of order within the limits thereof. 

Sec. 7. And be it enacted and ordained, That the Mayor 
of the city, for the time being, shall always be a member 
of the commission ex officio. 

Sec. 8. And be it enacted and ordained. That the said 
commission shall have power and authority to dispose of, 
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by sale or otherwise, any portion of said site or sites origi- 
nally purchased, which may not be necessary for the pur- 
poses of said Park or Parks, as well as any crop, wood, 
trees, or other property that may be severable from the 
freehold, should it become necessary, in the improvement 
and maintenance of said Park or Parks so to do, in their 
judgment, and to make use of the avails thereof for the 
use of said Park or Parks. And the Mayor is hereby 
authorized to execute any conveyances, certified by the 
City Counsellor, that maybe required therefor ; provided, 
however, that the joint expenses of said improvement and 
maintenance shall not exceed in any year the net revenue 
that may be received under the provisions of this 8th sec- 
tiop, together with the said four-fifths of remaining reve- 
nue as set apart in the fourth section of this ordinance. 

Sec. 9. And be it enacted and ordained, That the said 
commission shall have full power to make all agreements 
with proprietors in regard to division lines and enclosures, 
the adjusting thereof, and the exchanging of property for 
that purpose, and in like manner the said commission shall 
have full power to agree for the closing of public roads, 
should any be found to run through said site or sites, or 
to make such arrangement thereof as shall enable them 
to have entire control of the said Park or Parks, the exclu- 
sion of improper parties, and the general police thereof. 

Sec 10. And be it enacted and ordained, That in addi- 
tion to the present commission, Thomas Swann, now a 
member thereof, as Mayor of the city, ex officio, be and he 
is hereby appointed a commissioner in his individual 
capacity. 

Sec. 11. And be it enacted and ordained, That nothing 
herein contained shall be taken to authorize the payment 
of either salary or emoluments of any kind to the said 
commissioners, or any of them. 

Sec. 12. And be it enacted and ordained, That should 
any vacancy occur in said commission from death, resig- 



THE PUBLIC PARKS OF BALTIMORE CITY. 11 

nation or failure to serve, the same sliall be filled by the 
said commission itself, and be by them reported to the 
Council for and subject to its approval, at the first session 
thereafter. 

Approved July 21, 1860. 

Tho: Swann, Mayor. 



CHAPTER 41. 

An Act to amend the Fourth Article of the Code of Public Local 
Laws by adding thereto the following sections, relating to the 
purchase and government of Druid Hill and Patterson Parks, 
belonging to the City of Baltimore. 

Section 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary- 
land, That the Park Commission provided for under a 
resolution of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, 
approved June the fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty, 
and acting under an ordinance entitled, "An ordinance 
to provide for a Park or Parks, approved July twenty- 
first, eighteen hundred and sixty, as well as under any 
future ordinance of the said Mayor and City Council," be 
and they are hereby authorized to make from time to time 
such rules and regulations for the government and the 
preservation of order within the said Parks, as they maj' 
deem expedient, declaring what fines, not exceeding, in 
any one case, one hundred dollars, shall be imposed for 
breaches of said rules and regulations, to be recoverable 
in the name of the said Mayor and City Council as small 
debts are recoverable before a Justice of the Peace of the 
City of Baltimore, and appropriated to the purposes of 
the said Parks. 

Sec. 2. And he it enacted, That the members of the said 
Park Commission, for the time being, shall have the power 
respectively of conservators of the peace within the limits 
of said Parks. 



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Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the Board of Police of 
the said city are hereby authorized, on the requisition of 
the said Park Commission, to detail from time to time 
such of the regular police force as the said Board may 
deem necessary for the preservation of order within the 
said Parks, according to the regulations aforesaid, and 
under the direction of said Board of Police; which detailed 
force shall have the same power in the premises that the 
police of the said city have as conservators of the peace. 

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That tlie ordinance and reso- 
lution referred to in the frst section of this act, be and the 
same are hereby ratified and confirmed, and that full 
power be and the same is hereby given to the Mayor of 
the said city and the Register and the said Park Commis- 
sion to carry into eflfect all the provisions of the said 
ordinance, in the same manner, to all intents and purposes, 
as if the said Mayor and City Council had been, previously 
to the passage of the said ordinance, authorized and em- 
powered by an act of the General Assembly of Maryland 
to enact an ordinance in the precise terms of the ordinance 
above referred to, and to provide for carrying the same 
into eflfect; provided, that nothing in this act shall be con- 
strued to affect any right whatsoever of the Green Spring 
Avenue Company. 

Passed June 12, 1861. 

This act has been repealed, but is inserted here, not- 
withstanding, for illustration, if need be. 



THE PUBLIC PARKS OF BALTIMORE CITY. 13 

CHAPTER 29. 

An Act to ratify the purchase, and to provide for the organization 
and government of Druid Hill Park and Patterson Park, 
belonging to the City of Baltimore, hy incorporating certain 
additional sections in Article four of the Code of Public Local 
Laws. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of 
Maryland, That the following be enacted and incorpo- 
rated as additional sections into Article Four of the Code 
of Public Local Laws, under the title of Parks : 

954. The resolution of the Mayor and City Council of 
Baltimore, '^'appointing a Commission in relation to the 
proposed Public Parks," approved June the fourth, 
eighteen hundred and sixty, and an ordinance of the said 
Mayor and City Council, "to provide for a Public Park 
or Parks," approved July the twenty-first, eigliteen hun- 
dred and sixty, are hereby confirmed, and all a&ts done 
or which may be hereafter done by the said Mayor and 
City Council, or other officer of said city, or by the Park 
Commission acting under the provisions of said resolution 
and ordinance, shall have the same effect as if the said 
Mayor and City Council, prior to the passage of the said 
resolution and ordinance, had been expressly empowered by 
an act of the General Assembly of Maryland, to enact a 
resolution and ordinance, in the precise terms of the said 
resolution and ordinance, and to provide for carrying the 
same into effect; but nothing herein is to affect any right 
whatsoever of the Green Spring Avenue Company. 

955. The Park Commission, for the time being, ap- 
pointed under the provisions of said resolution and ordi- 
nance, or any resolution or ordinance supplementary 
thereto, shall have power, from time to time, to make 
such rules and regulations for the government and the pre- 
servation of order within the said Parks as they may deem 



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expedient, declaring what fines, not exceeding in any one 
case one hundred dollars^ shall be imposed for breaches 
of said rules and regulations, to be recoverable in the 
name of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, as 
small debts are recoverable, before a Justice of the Peace 
of the said city, and appropriated to the purposes of said 
Parks. 

956. The several members of the said Park Commission 
shall have the powers of a conservator of the poace within 
the limits of the said Parks. 

957. The Board of Police of the said city are authorized, 
on the requisition of the Park Commission, to detail, from 
time to time, such of the regular police force of said city, 
as the Board may deem necessary for the preservation of 
order within the said Parks, according to the regulations 
aforesaid, and under the direction of said Board ; which 
detailed force shall have the same power in the premises, 
that the police of the city have as conservators of the 
peace. 

958. If the said Park Commission shall find that they 
cannot agree with the owner of any land, or of any in- 
terest in land, which may be found necessary to be added 
to "Druid Hill Park," or if the owner thereof or any 
of the owners thereof, at the time of application be a feme 
covert, under age, non compos mentis, or residing out of 
Baltimore County, application may be made by the said 
Commissioners, to any Justice of the Peace of Baltimore 
County, who shall thereupon issue his warrant, under 
hand and seal, directed to the Sheriff of the county, direct- 
ing him to summon a jury of twenty inhabitants of said 
county, not related to tlie parties, nor in any wise inte- 
rested, to meet on the land to be valued on a day named 
in said warrant, not less than ten nor more than twenty 
days after issuing the same, and if at said time and place, 
any of said jurors summoned do not attend, the said Sheriflf 
shall immediately summon as many jurors as may be 



THE PUBLIC PARKS OF BALTIMORE CITY. 15 

necessary, with the jurors in attendance, to furnish a 
panel of twenty jurors in attendance, and fi-om them 
each party or his agent, or if either be not present, in 
person or by agent, the Sheriff for him, may strike off 
four jurors, and the remaining twelve shall act as the jury 
of inquest; and before they act as such, the Sheriff shall 
administer to each of them an oath or affirmation, as the 
case may be, that he will justly and impartially value the 
land required by said Mayor and City Council for the Park 
aforesaid; and the said jury shall reduce their inquisition 
to writing, and shall sign and seal the same, and it shall 
then be returned by the said Sheriff to the Clerk of the Cir- 
cuit Court for Baltimore County, to be filed in his Court, 
for confirmation by said Court at its next term, if no suffi- 
cient cause to the contrary be shown, and when returned, 
shall be recorded by the said Clerk at the expense of the 
said Mayor and City Council; but, if set aside, the Coart 
may direct another inquisition to be taken in the manner 
above prescribed; and such inquisition shall describe the 
land taken, and the quantity or duration of the interest in 
the same, valued for the Mayor and City Council, and 
such valuation, when paid or tendered to the owner of said 
land, or his or her legal representatives, shall entitle the 
said Mayor and City Council to the estate or interest so 
valued, as fully as if it had been conveyed by the owner 
thereof; and the valuation, if not received when tendered, 
may at any time thereafter be received from the said Mayor 
and City Council by the said owner. 

959. The said Park Commissioners, are authorized to 
enlarge the streets and avenues around and leading to the 
said Park; and in the event of failing to agree with tlie 
owner of any pro()erty required for that purpose, or of any 
interest therein, for the purchase thereof, or if the owner 
be a feme covert, under age, non compos mentis, or be resid- 
ing out of the County at the time, the said Commissioners 
are hereby authorized to condemn the same, in the manner 



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specified in the foregoing section, the oath to each juror 
being, that he will justly and impartially value the dam- 
ages which the owner will sustain by the enlarging of the 
particular street or avenue, as the case may be, and the 
jury, in estimating such damages, shall not make any 
allowance or deduction on account of any real or supposed 
benefits which the owner may derive from said Park, or 
from such enlargement of said street or avenue. 

Sec 2. And he it enacted, That the Act "to amend the 
Fourth Article of the Code of Public Local Laws, by 
adding thereto the following sections, relating to the pur- 
chase and government of Druid Hill and Patterson Parks, 
belonging to the City of Baltimore, passed at April ses- 
sion, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, chapter forty-one, 
be and the same is hereby repealed; the provisions thereof 
being incorporated in the preceding section. 

Sec. 3. Arid he it enacted, That this Act shall take effect 
from the passage thereof. 

Passed January 31, 18()2. 



CHAPTER 71. 

Extract from An Act entitled, An Act to incorporate the Baltimore 
City Passenger Mailway Company. 

Section 4. And he it enacted, That the corporation hereby 
created be and they are hereby required to pay over to the 
Register of the City of Baltimore, the one-fifth portion of 
the whole passenger receipts of this corporation, at or 
before the stated periods named in the aforesaid recited 
ordinance of the City of Baltimore ; in default of which 
payments on or before the days appointed therelbr, this 
corporation shall be liable to the penalty of one hundred 
dollars for each day of the continuance of such default 
after ten days after the expiration of each quarter, to be 



THE PUBLIC PARKS OF BALTIMORE CITY'. 17 

recovered by the said City of Baltimore according to law ; 
provided further , that the said corporation shall be subject 
to such police regulations, as the Mayor and City Council 
of Baltimore may hereafter, from time to time, enact by 
ordinance for the government of their conduct in the per- 
formance of their duties under this law, and provided also, 
that said corporation hereby created, shall provide books 
in which shall be entered by a Treasurer, under oath, the 
weekly receipts of saiti Company, and that said books 
shall be open to the inspection of the Mayor and City 
Council of Baltimore. 

Passed February 18, 1862. 



No. 67. 

An Ordinance authorizing the construction of a Pavilion in 
Druid Hill Parle. 

Be it enacted and ordained by the Mayor and City Coun- 
cil of Baltimore, That the Public Park Commissioners be 
and they are hereby authorized to borrow the sum of fif- 
teen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be neces- 
sary for the purpose of enlarging and improving the 
Mansion House at Druid Hill Park, so as to convert the 
same into a- central Pavilion for the accommodation of 
the public, to be secured by the rents of said Pavilion, 
and for that purpose the said commissioners are hereby 
empowered to assign the said rents in trust, and to appro- 
priate so much as may be required to the payment of the 
interest on the borrowed sum, the balance to be set apart 
as a sinking fund for the extinguishment of the debt 
hereby authorized to be created ; provided, that no part of 
said interest shall be a charge on the city treasury, but 



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shall be paid by the Park Commissioners from the funds 
provided for the support and maintenance of said Park. 
Approved October 10, 1862. 

John Lee Chapman, ex officio Mayor. 

The above ordinance was never acted on, the subse- 
quent appropriation by the city of $150,000 fi^nishing the 
means for building the Pavilion. 



No. 37. 

An Ordinance to provide for improvements in Druid Hill Park 
and Patterson Park. 

Whereas, the Public Park Commission, in their third 
annual report, have designated various objects, which are 
desirable in view of affording the public the most advan- 
tageous enjoyment of Druid Hill Park and Patterson Park, 
but which are beyond the present limited means of the 
Commission ; and whereas, it is important that the im- 
provement of said Parks be prosecuted witli reasonable 
rapidity ; therefore. 

Section 1 . Be it enacted and ordained by the Mayor and 
City Council of Baltimore^ That whenever the Park Com- 
mission shall certify to the Register of the city, under 
their respective hands, that they require a sum of money 
for an object connected with the said Parks, said object 
to be at the same time designated, it shall be the duty of 
the Register to issue the bonds of the Mayor and City 
Council of Baltimore in the usual form, redeemable on 
the first day of January, 1895, bearing interest at the 
annual rate of six per centum, payable quarterly on the 
first day of January, April, July and October, and desig- 
nated as " Park Improvement Stock," for an amount suffi- 



THE PUBLIC PARKS OP BALTIMORE CITY. 19 

cient to meet such requisition after retaining one-tenth of 
the par value for the purposes of a sinking fund, and the 
said Register shall sell the bonds so issued not under par, 
and out of the proceeds pay to the said Commission, the 
amount of their requisition or requisitions, from time to 
time, as the money may be needed : Provided, that the 
whole amount of bonds, so issued, shall not exceed the 
sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for Druid 
Hill Park and twenty thousand dollars for Patterson Park, 
and should the Register sell the said bonds for more than 
par, the surplus shall be retained by him, and applied to 
the payment of the first interest accruing upon said bonds. 

Sec 2. And be it enacted and ordained^ That after de- 
ducting from the revenue derived from the City Passenger 
Railways, the interest on the present issue of Park stock 
under the ordinance to provide for a public Park or Parks, 
and the sinking fund therein provided for, and the further 
sum of ten thousand dollars annually for the maintenance 
of the Parks,- the surplus of said revenue, and the rent of 
the pavilion, and the net receipts from any passenger rail- 
way which may be laid within Druid Hill Park shall be 
applied, as far as necessary, to reimburse the city the 
interest upon the bonds hereby authorized to be issued: 
Provided, that not more than one-eighth of the sura re- 
served in tliis section for the annual maintenance of the 
parks and of the excess of annual receipts from the City 
Passenger Railways over the amount necessary to provide 
for the interest on the bonds, issued under the piovisions 
of this ordinance, shall be expended in the improvement 
and preservation of Patterson Park. 

Sec. 3. And be it enacted and ordained, That one-tenth 
of the par value of said bonds retained by the Register, 
as directed in the first section, shall be invested by the 
Commissioners of Finance in the bonds of the City of Bal- 
timore, or in bonds for which the city is liable by endorse- 
ment, as a sinking fund for the redemption of the bonds 



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issued under tlie provisions of this ordinance, and that the 
proceeds of all sales or rents of any land south of Nevving- 
ton Lane, which may be sold or leased by the Park Com- 
mission, shall be paid to the Register of the city, to be 
invested by the Commissioners of Finance in the sinking 
fund herein provided for, until the said fund shall, in the 
opinion of the said Commissioners, be adequate to the 
redemption of the bonds hereby authorized, at their matu- 
rity, and the Register shall be tlie trustee thereof. 

Sec. 4. And be it enacted and ordained, That should 
the Park Commission deem it expedient, they may, under 
the direction of the City Commissoner, lay down railway 
tracks on the Nortli Avenue, between Madison lane and 
the Reisterstown road, with a view of facilitating the rail- 
way access to Druid Hill Park, subject to the same condi- 
tions as those established in the similar grant heretofore 
made to the President, Managers and Company of the 
Baltimore and Yorktown Turn[)ike Road, and the said 
Commission may delegate this power for a period not 
exceeding five years to any part}'^ with whom they may 
agree for the construction of a railway track or tracks to 
or within the Paik: Provided, that the rate of fare shall 
not exceed three cents to each passenger for the trip, to 
or from the vicinity of the Pavilion, or five cents for the 
round trip, and that no fare shall be chargeable until the 
track is laid to a point within two hundred yards of the 
pavilion. 

Sec. 5. And be it enacted and ordained. That with a 
view of increasing the storage of water for the supply of 
the city by the construction of lakes and reservoirs in 
Druid Hill Park and the land adjoining thereto, the Park 
Commission, under the direction of tlie Water Board, are 
authorized to lay a pipe from Hampden Reservoir or from 
the conduit to a reservoir or reservoirs within the park, 
(to be constructed by the Park Commission,) and to keep 
the latter supplied with water from the former, under the 



THE PUBLIC PARKS OF BALTIMORE CITY. 21 

control of the Water Board, havinjr resrard to the exigen- 
cies of the city, it being understood that the Park Com- 
mission will appropriate to the use of said Board for a 
still further storage of water, any land under the control 
of the Park Commission outside of the limits of the Park, 
not affected hy any existini; agreements, and the Park 
Commission are hereby authorized to make sueh appro- 
priation. 

Sec. 6. And be it enacted and ordained, That for the 
j)urp()se of supplying such |)()rtions of the city as cannot 
now be supplied from the })resent reservoirs, the Water 
Board shall have power, at their discretion, to use any 
of the reservoirs or lakes in Druid Hill Park, and to 
open the ground and lay down pipes in the said park, as 
they are now authorized to do within the limits of t!ie 
city: Provided, that the Park Commission shall he con- 
sulted in the location of said pipes, and that the same 
shall be agreed upon by the two Commissions: Provided, 
hoioever, that the Park Commissioners shall not make a 
requisition for, and the Register shall not be authorized 
to issue any of the bonds as provided for in section one of 
this ordinance, to pay any of tlie expenses of introducing 
water into Druid Hill Park from Hampden Reservoir, or 
otherwise, or for the construction of lakes and reservoirs 
for the reception of the same, except such as may be 
entirely supplied with water from springs in said park, 
until after the Pavilion has been so far completed as to be 
used by the public, and a permanent connection by a rail- 
way or otherwise, between the present terminus of the 
City Passenger Railway, at the corner of Northern Boun- 
dary and Madison Avenue and a point near the said pavi- 
lion has been made, and vehicles are regularly running 
in such way as to afford ample accommodations for pas- 
sengers. 

Sec. 7. And be it enacted and ordained, That ordinance 
No. 67, of the Ordinances for 1862, entitled "An Ordi- 



22 LAWS AND ORDINANCES RELATING TO 

dance authorizing the construction of a Pavilion at Druid 
Hill Park," be and the same is hereby repealed. 

Approved May 2, 1863. 

John Lee Chapman, Mayor. 



CHAPTER 141. 



Extract from An Act to amend the Act to Incorporate the Oreen 
Spring Avenue Company, passed at the January session, one 
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, chapter two hundred and 
sixteen, and the Act amendatory thereof, passed at the January 
session, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, chapter one hun- 
dred and sixty four, and to carry out the provisioiis of an agree- 
ment made between the said Company and the Mayor and City 
Council of Baltimore. 

Sec. 2. And tvhereas, an agreement has been made be- 
tween the said Company and the Mayor and City Council 
of Baltimore, whereby a road has been provided through 
Druid Hill Park, from tlie southern entrance thereof to 
an entrance already agreed upon on Woodbury lane, 
which road is to be at all times hereafter kept open and 
in repair by the Park Commissioners, for use at all hours 
of tlie day and night, for such travel as is permitted by 
the general regulations of the Park, within its limits; 
therefore, be it enacted, that th^- Green Spring Avenue 
Company are hereby released from the obligation of con- 
structing their said avenue south of the northern boundary 
of said Park. 

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the said Druid Hill 
Park be and the same is hereby declared to be forever ex- 
emi)t from the passage through it, or the construction 
within it, of any public highway, turnpike or rail-road. 



THE PUBLIC PARKS OF BALTIMORE CITY. 23 

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That this Act shall be of 
non-effect until accepted by the Green Spring Avenue 
Company. 

Passed March 2, 1864. 

This Act was duly accepted by the Company. 



CHAPTER 170. 



A Supplement to an Act entitled, An Act to incorporate the 
Baltimore City Passenger Hailway Company. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of 
Maryland, That the Baltimore City Passenger Railway 
Company be, and they are hereby authorized and empow- 
ered to charge and collect six cents fare from each pas- 
senger passing from any one part of the City of Baltimore 
to any other part on the line of their railways without 
charge for transfer tickets, and one fifth of the gross re- 
ceipts from passengers to be paid to the Register of the 
City of Baltimore, as provided for by the ordinance of the 
Mayor and City Council of said City. 

Passed March 7, 1864. 



24 LAWS AND ORDINANCES RELATING TO 



CHAPTER 100. 

A Further Supplement to an Act entitled, ''An Act to incor- 
porate the Baltimore City Passenger Railway Company'' 

Section 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly of 
Maryland, That the Baltimore Passenger Railway Com- 
pany be and they are hereby authorized and empowered 
to charge and collect six cents from each passenger pass 
ing from any part of the City of Baltimore to any other 
part, in any line of their railways, with a charge for 
transfer tickets of four cents; and one-fifth of the gross 
receipts from passengers to be paid to the Register of the 
City of Baltimore, as provided for by the ordinance of the 
Mayor and City Council of said City. 

Passed March 16, 1865. 



No. 52. 

A Supplement to an ordinance entitled, "An ordinance to pro- 
vide for Improvements in Druid Hill Park and Patterson 
Parir 

Be it enacted and ordained by the Ilayor and City Coun- 
cil of Baltimore, That in addition to the bonds authorized 
to be issued for Druid Hill Park by the ordinance to 
which this is a supplement, there shall be issued in the 
manner provided in the said ordinance, the sum of twenty- 
seven thousand dollars, to which additional sum all tlie 
provisions of said ordinance shall a[>ply, as thougii the 
sum therein mentioned had included the sum now au- 
thorized. 

Approved June 28, 1865. 

John Lee Chapman, Mayor. 



THE PUBLIC PARKS OF BALTIMORE CITY. 25 

No. 60. 

An Ordinance relating to Druid Hill and Patterson Parks. 

Section 1. Be it enacted and ordained by the Mayor and 
City Council of Baltimore, That the Register of the city 
be and he is hereby authorized, in accounting with the 
Public Park Commission, to pay to them the revenue 
derived from the Passenger Railways without other deduc- 
tion than the interest on the bonds issued for the purchase 
of said Parks, and the sinking fund as provided for in the 
several ordinances heretofore passed in relation to the 
Public Parks. 

Sec. 2. And he it enacted and ordained. That the Regis- 
ter be and is hereby authorized to pay to the Public Park 
Commission, in such sums as may from time to time be re- 
quired, fifty thousand dollars, of which sura ten thousand 
dollars shall be for the use exclusively of Patterson Park, 
and the remainder for Druid Hill Park. 

Approved May 26, 1866. 

John Lee Chapman, Mayor. 



No, 141. 

Resalution to Provide Concerts at the Parks. 

Whereas, the instrumental concerts provided by the 
city at Druid Hill and Patterson Parks last year added 
much to the attractions of these popular places of re- 
sort, being duly appreciated by, and giving much gratiB- 
cation to, the large number of our citizens who attended 
them, it is deemed advisable that they should be con- 
tinued this year, therefore 



26 LAWS AND ORDINANCES. 

Resolved by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, 
That the Mayor he and he is herehy authorized to contract 
with a suitable person to superintend the giving of 
instrumental concerts in Druid Hill and Patterson Parks, 
on such days, during the summer and fall months, as he 
may deem proper, and that the sum of twelve hundred 
dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and 
the same is hereby appropriated to pay the expenses 
thereof, to be taken out of the levy of 1866. 

Approved May 21, 1866. 

John Lee Chapman, Mayor 



RULES AXD REGULATIONS 



FOE THE GOVERNMENT OF 



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1. If any person shall discharge any Fire-Arra within 
the Park, such person shall forfeit and pay Five Dollars 
for every offence, 

2. Dogs are prohibited; and, if any person, having a 
Dog within the Park, refuses, when requested, to take 
hira out, such person shall forfeit and pay Five Dollars. 

3. If any person shall Drive or Ride upon the Grass, or 
Footways, or elsewhere tlian on the Roads for the use of 
Carriages and Equestrians such person shall forfeit and 
pay Five Dollars for every offence — the owner of the Car- 
riage, in the case of Driving to be responsible. 

4. i&^ If any person shall Drive or Ride faster than 

AT THE rate OF SiX MiLES AN lioUR, SUCH PERSON SHALL FOR- 
FEIT AND PAY Five Dollars for the first offence, and 
Twenty Dollars for every succeeding offence. 

5. If any person shall pull any Flowers or Fruit, 
whether wild or cultivated — cut down Trees or Sap'ings — 
break limbs, or Branches of Trees, or Bark Trees — or 
injure Shrubbery, or plants, such person shall forfeit and 
pay not less than Five Dollars, nor more than One hun- 
dred Dollars, for every offence. 



28 RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE 

6. If any person shall Girdle any Tree, such person 
shall forfeit and pay not less than Twenty, nor more than 
One Hundred Dollars. 

7. If any person shall commit a nuisance, or any offence 
against decency or good morals, such person shall forfeit 
and pay not less than Five, nor more than Fifty Dollars, 
for every offence. 

8. If any person shall Write upon any building, Bench, 
Statuary, Ornament, or other Property, or in any manner 
cut, deface, or mutilate the same, such person shall forfeit 
and pay Five Dollars for every offence, 

9. If any person shall throw Stones, or Rubbish of any 
kind, into any Lake or Pond of the Park, such person 
shall forfeit and pay Five Dollars for every ofifence. 

10. If any person shall Bathe in any Lake or Pond of 
the Park, such person shall forfeit and pay Five Dollars 
for every offence, 

11. If any person shall Chase, set Snares for, or Catch, 
any Rabbits, Squirrels, Birds or Fish, within the Park, 
such person shall forfeit and pay Five Dollars for every 
offence. 

12. If any person shall Curse or Swear, or use abusive 
language, or Fight, or Throw Stones, or behave in a 
Riotous or Disorderly Manner, such person shall forfeit 
and pay Five Dollars for every offence. 

13. If any person shall introduce any Spirituous Liquors 
into the Park, either for his own use or for sale, and shall 
use, or sell, or give the same, such person shall pay not 
less than Five, nor more than Twenty Dollars. 

14. If any person shall set up any Booth, or Table, for 
the sale of any article whatever, without the consent of 
the Park Commission, such person shall forfeit and pay 
Five Dollars for every offence; and the Booth or Table 
shall he removed. 

15. If any person shall attach a Swing to any tree 
vvitliin the Park, without the consent of tlie Superinten- 



PUBLIC PARKS OP BALTIMORE CITY. 29 

dent, or person in charge of" the Park, such person shall 
forfeit and pay Five Dollars for every offence. 

16. If any person shall Climh a Tree, such person shall 
forfeit and pay Five Dollars for every offence. 

17. If any person shall Foul in any manner any Spring 
or Branch, such person shall forfeit and pay not less than 
Five, nor more than Ten Dollars. 

18. When Carriages or Equestrians meet, the parties 
respectively, shall keep to the right, as the law of the 
Road. 

19. If any person shall break, or in any manner injure 
the Enclosure of the Park, such person shall forfeit and 
pay the sum of Five Dollars for every offence, in addition 
to the cost of repairing the injury. 

20. The Gates shall he opened at Sunrise, and closed at 
Dark. After the Gates are closed, they will be opened 
only to permit egress, but not ingress of visitors to the 
Park. 

21. If any person shall fasten a Horse to a Tree, such 
person shall forfeit and pay Five Dollars for every offence. 

22. Any person found Intoxicated in the Park, may be 
removed therefrom by the Police, and the Gate Keepers 
are a,uthorized to prevent the ingress of any such person. 

23. Gambling, and Playing Cards, is prohibited, under 
a penalty of Five Dollars, to be forfeited and paid by each 
of the parties to the game. 

24. If any person shall make a Fire, for any purpose on 
the grounds of the Park, such person shall forfeit and pay 
Five Dollars for every offence. 

25. If any person shall trespass on Ground Enclosed 
with a rail, such person shall be subject to a fine of Five 
Dollars. 

26. The Pic-uics permitted in the Park are those of 
Sunday and other Schools, when accompanied by their 
respective Teachers and Masters, who will be held person- 
ally responsible for all infringements by the Scholars of 



36 RULES AND REGULATIONS. 

these Rules and Regulations, in the penalties severally 
prescribed herein. 

27. No Pic-aic shall take place in the Park without a 
written permission for the purpose being first obtained 
from the Superintendent, or person in charge of the Park, 
in which shall be designated the S[)ot where it shall be 
held. If any person shall attempt to hold a Pic-nic with- 
out such permission, each person engaged therein shall 
forfeit and pay Five Dollars, besides being liable to be 
turned out of the Park. 

28. Parties holding Pic-nics in the Park are expected to 
clean up the ground that has been occupied by them, on 
quitting it, and not to leave paper to ba blown about on 
the premises. 

29. If any person shall disturb any Pic-nic, or intrude 
him or herself upon it svitliont the consent of thos:i con- 
posing it, such person sliall forfeit and pay Five Dollars 
for every offence. 

30. The experience of the Commission renders the en- 
forcement of the above Regulations in regard to Pic-nics 
indispensable to the preservation of the property, and the 
comfort and protection of the visitors. 

PARK COMMISSION. 
July 2d, 1861. 



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